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Last week Muir's father, a retired lieutenant colonel and onetime commander of the Argylls (1923-27), went to Buckingham Palace to receive from the King's hand the Victoria Cross for his son's bravery...
...Sept. 23, 1950, on Korea's Naktong River front, two companies of Britain's proud Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders took Hill 282, tried to hold on against severe Red fire. When ammunition ran low, the officer in command, Major Kenneth Muir, moved among his men, cheering them on. U.S. planes flew over to lend a hand. But the air strike was short of the target, fell instead on Muir's men. When it was over, only 30 effectives remained. The demoralized men withdrew down the hillside. Then, undaunted Major Muir said: "I'll take them up again...
...Argylls counterattacked and retook the hill. Major Muir fired a mortar, shouted to his men, "The gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill." The Argylls held, but their commander died on Hill...
...342nd V.C. won by soldiers, sailors, airmen of the empire in the 95 years since Queen Victoria began conferring the award,* and the first V.C. in the Korean war. Said Muir's father: "I am proud beyond all words. My son, my only son, was a soldier...
People's eight months at Newsweek had begun in argument: Malcolm Muir thought the little magazine looked like a moneymaker and should be pushed, but Board Chairman Vincent Astor disliked its low-grade formula. When People tried slicing the cheesecake thinner, circulation dropped and Astor yielded. Then an impending paper shortage loomed, and everybody agreed People should...